Senior Pastoral Lead - Achieve, Behaviour & Culture
Saint Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic Academy, Prescot, Merseyside, L35 2XG9 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
1 December 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
21 November 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 36 hours per week, Monday-Friday Term time plus two weeks
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- NJC 26-30 FTE
What skills and experience we're looking for
The Role
This is an exciting position for a candidate who has a passion to transform lives and change society through education. A key role within our mission to ensure we are inclusive and ensure all pupils can flourish and succeed at St Edmund Arrowsmith.
We are looking to welcome a colleague who can strengthen our team and believes that our school can serve every child in the community. The right candidate for this role will be passionate about education and supporting all pupils in our school and relentless in the pursuit of equality and justice for all. They will have excellent communication skills and the willingness to use those skills to ensure that every child has the chance to succeed, understanding that some pupils require further support and guidance to enable them to flourish.
Our purpose is to be “School of Choice for the Community” enabling our pupils to ‘live life in all it’s fullness’.
Purpose of Role
Provide leadership to and set high expectations for the students of St Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic Academy in all pastoral matters. Leading all Heads of Year and with responsibility for a specific year cohort. This post supports the progress, mental health, wellbeing (pastoral care) and behaviour management of students at St Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic Academy. This position is both proactive and reactive in nature, ensuring the needs of our pupils are met, and that they are known and understood as individuals –our pupils feel known and that they belong so that they can thrive.
Working with the Deputy Headteacher, Assistant Headteacher Inclusion and in collaboration with other members of staff, to provide support and intervention strategies in order to meet the pastoral needs of the students at St Edmund Arrowsmith in a specific cohort.
To be responsible for the coordination of all pastoral activity for the cohort, ensuring that staff and managers are aware of issues of concern or causes for celebration.
What the school offers its staff
What We Offer For All Staff
We recognise that employee wellbeing and work-life balance are essential to thriving in the workplace. The Trust places a high value on providing a range of benefits for all colleagues, beyond the essentials of receiving professional recognition, networking and CPD, commensurate financial reward and job satisfaction.
Please take a look at our website and social media channels to get a real sense of the support that we provide to all our employees, including our full staff benefits package:
www.pfcmat.org/Staff-Benefits- Package/
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
This job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Saint Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic Academy
- School type
- Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 757 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Saint Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic Academy website
- Email address
- l.worthington@seaca.pfcmat.org
At Saint Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic Academy, our mission is to become the number one school of choice in the local area. It will be a school characterised first and foremost by our faith and strength of our Catholic community. We will be recognised for having an exceptional curriculum
that provides pupils with powerful academic knowledge and the character development they need to really 'Live life to the full'.
Arranging a visit to Saint Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email l.worthington@seaca.pfcmat.org.
School location
Similar jobs nearby
Inclusion Learning Support Assistant
Rainhill High School
Warrington Road, Prescot, Merseyside, L35 6NY
Senior Pastoral Lead - Belong & Thrive Co-ordinator
Saint Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic Academy
Cumber Lane, Prescot, Merseyside, L35 2XG
King's Leadership Academy Hawthornes
Fernhill Road, Bootle, Merseyside, L20 6AQ
St James's Church of England High School
Lucas Road, Bolton, Greater Manchester, BL4 9RU
Get a job alert when similar jobs are listed
Find more school jobs in Merseyside